Subject:Do you speak Yankee or Dixie?

Just for fun: http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html

I got 71% Dixie.

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Written By:GWBush2004on03/14/05 at 2:10 pm

The thing that brought my Dixie score down was the fact I use the term "Sneakers," which I know is northeastern. But I had to be honest. :-\\

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Written By:Alchoholicaon03/14/05 at 2:17 pm

60% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Which make sense...

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Written By:sputnikcorpon03/14/05 at 2:28 pm

63% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!...odd, i'm canadian... :-\\

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Written By:ElDuderinoon03/14/05 at 2:46 pm

55% Dixie here. And I come from East Texas! ;D A couple of odd ones for me was that I refer to the night before Halloween as Devil's Night, and the test said that is common in Michigan. I've never been there, and I don't know anyone from there..Anyway, the other was that I pronounce Aunt in a way that rhymes with "want", rather than the more common "ant" which is how 75% of the U.S. Population says it. By the way, I believe the way I say it is the more correct pronunciation.

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Written By:ADH13on03/14/05 at 2:47 pm

57% dixie

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Written By:ElDuderinoon03/14/05 at 2:50 pm

Oh, also, I do NOT use the common southern plural third person pronoun of "ya'll". I use "you guys", or "you all". I spoke more Southern when I was younger, but the last 3 years or so I've made a concious effort to change my speech patterns, and I have. I've been trying to model my speech on Received Pronunciation, also known as "BBC English".

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Written By:danootaandmeon03/14/05 at 3:02 pm

Something isn't right here. I am New England born and bred as was my mom and her parents. No matter where I go people know I am from Boston, and get a good laugh over my accent and regionalisms. I got 100%, I repeat 100% Dixie. ???

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Written By:bbigd04on03/14/05 at 3:03 pm

52 % Dixie, right around the middle, normal for a midwesterner I guess. It's tennis shoes, pop, crayfish, and potato bug for me. Don't have a name for the night before halloween thing. For the road on the side of the freeway, I wasn't too sure but access road sounded the best to me so I picked that one.

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Written By:MaxwellSmarton03/14/05 at 3:13 pm

My grandmother, God rest her soul, forced herself to break the swamp Yankee accent. Ã‚Â She would have been the last one in my immediate family who talked in anything other than proper and bland pronounciation spoken by WASPs from New England who don't have discernable New England accents! Ã‚Â And that includes the Boston Brahmin snobs as a discernable N.E. accent.When I went to Britain, most Brits guessed I was from Canada. Ã‚Â I tend "aboowt," but not quite "aboot." Ã‚Â Apparently, I'm the first one in the family to gravitate to any Canadianisms! Ã‚Â Maybe it's more Tom Brokaw Nebraskan, but I hope not!In other words, I haven't got a trace of Dixie in my diction.

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Written By:ElDuderinoon03/14/05 at 3:34 pm

My dialect is very ambiguous. I try to speak formal, Queen's English as best as I can, but bits of my Southern colloqialisms still creep in, and due to conversing with so many Brits on the net and listening to and watching so much British media, I have gravitated towards quite a few Britishisms like using the word "quite" over "very", and "you lot" sometimes as well instead of you all or you guys. ;D

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Written By:RockandRollFanon03/14/05 at 3:45 pm

30% (Yankee). You show a very strong Yankee score.

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Written By:MaxwellSmarton03/14/05 at 4:00 pm

Well, well, well, barely 48% Yankee!

For one thing, If I stuck to my original pronounciation of the word "caramel," I would say "carmil," like my sister does.Ã‚Â I thought it sounded to flat, so I adoptedÃ‚Â the more lyrical three syllable pronounciation.

When a test has such a low number of questions, a simple anomoly like this can tilt the whole thing unfairly.

And I, for one, live in western Massachusetts, and I have never heard of "Cabbage night." Nobody says "Cabage Night" unless they are referring to the scheduled horrible side dish. If I have lived here for 12 years and never heard a single sould mention "Cabbage Night," it just isn't and ism. :-\\Ganked from Word Detective site:"Cabbage Night" seems to be restricted largely to the Northeastern U.S. Ray Bradbury used the term in his classic story "Something Wicked This Way Comes" in 1962, and "Cabbage Night" probably dates back to at least the early 20th century. There seem to be three explanations for the name: the use of cabbage stumps to mark windows by pranksters, the tossing of cabbage stumps at neighbors' doors to create a loud and surprising "thump," and the tactic of dumping rotting produce on the victim's porch to create a smelly mess.

Anyway, I never heard of it growing up in NH either.

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Written By:jiminyon03/14/05 at 4:25 pm

69% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!... I must say I do like the "69"Ã‚Â ;D

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Written By:Miss Taintedon03/14/05 at 5:21 pm

39% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee. Funny because my family always says I'm the most southern but I'm the only one that hasn't said "Y'all" in the 7 years we've lived in the south. So to all of my family... :P

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Written By:80s Ladyon03/14/05 at 5:54 pm

79% Dixie.Ã‚Â Well, that's to be expected since I'm living (again) in Mis-sippi.Ã‚Â I may just be escorted across the Mason-Dixon line with such a low score as that!!Ã‚Â LOL!!

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Written By:RockandRollFanon03/14/05 at 6:08 pm

69% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!... I must say I do like the "69" ;D My ex-girlfriend enjoyed "71" much more :-X

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Written By:danootaandmeon03/14/05 at 6:10 pm

My ex-girlfriend enjoyed "71" much more :-X

68(and I'll owe you one ;D

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Written By:Bobbyon03/14/05 at 6:12 pm

63% Dixie - funny coming from a Brummie. ;D

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Written By:GWBush2004on03/14/05 at 6:19 pm

My dialect is very ambiguous. I try to speak formal, Queen's English as best as I can

I personally don't see why, but to each his own.

I'd never be able to stop saying American phrases like "apartment building" to say the British equivalent "block of flats."

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I'd never be able to stop saying American phrases like "apartment building" to say the British equivalent "block of flats."

You misunderstand me. I don't mean British English or slang, what I meant was correct English..rather than making the common errors of using "ya'll", double negatives, prouncing aunt "ant" and so on and so forth..

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Written By:ADH13on03/14/05 at 10:39 pm

You misunderstand me. I don't mean British English or slang, what I meant was correct English..rather than making the common errors of using "ya'll", double negatives, prouncing aunt "ant" and so on and so forth..

I don't really think variations of words are "correct" or "incorrect", and I'd be disappointed if everyone across the country spoke the same.Ã‚Â I personally pronounce aunt "ant", and I pronounce envelope "ENN-ve-lope" as opposed to "AHN-ve-lope" I believe the way I say it is phonetically correct, but I don't consider the latter to be incorrect.

Just curious Duderino, how do you pronounce envelope?

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Written By:AL-Bon03/15/05 at 1:44 am

43% Yankee. In other words, Midwestern.

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Written By:karenon03/15/05 at 11:08 am

I scored 59% barely Dixie.

I didn't answer one question because the answer I wanted wasn't there. Plus I would usually use the word trainers rather than sneakers or gym shoes but again that wasn't an option.

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Written By:ElDuderinoon03/15/05 at 2:47 pm

I don't really think variations of words are "correct" or "incorrect", and I'd be disappointed if everyone across the country spoke the same. I personally pronounce aunt "ant", and I pronounce envelope "ENN-ve-lope" as opposed to "AHN-ve-lope" I believe the way I say it is phonetically correct, but I don't consider the latter to be incorrect.

Just curious Duderino, how do you pronounce envelope?

"ahn-". :)

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Written By:bj26on03/15/05 at 3:13 pm

Ah was bone in JawJa 'n now ah live in Kain-tucky so ah speak puh-fek English, yaw'll - ah'm a little country and little bit Dixiefried! Yeeeeehaaaa ;D

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Written By:Tanya1976on03/15/05 at 3:44 pm

46% Yankee. Whatever! I was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. I do have family that are throughout the southern states, so I can understand somewhat.

Tanya

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Written By:nallyon03/16/05 at 3:08 pm

Mine said: "38% Yankee...a definitive Yankee." I couldn't figure out an answer to the question about the bug, though...probably because I haven't heard of it; also there was no "none of the above" or "don't know" option like that. :-\\

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Written By:GWBush2004on03/16/05 at 3:20 pm

Mine said: "38% Yankee...a definitive Yankee." I couldn't figure out an answer to the question about the bug, though...probably because I haven't heard of it; also there was no "none of the above" or "don't know" option like that. :-\\

You've never heard or seen a roly poly? Those little grey bugs that live under rocks the roll into a ball when you touch them.

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Written By:nallyon03/16/05 at 3:24 pm

You've never heard or seen a roly poly?Ã‚Â Those little grey bugs that live under rocks the roll into a ball when you touch them.

I've heard the term "roly poly" used as a synonym for "plump", "rotund", things like that. But yes, I have seen those bugs, I've just never known what they're called.

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Written By:GWBush2004on03/16/05 at 3:34 pm

and crunch when you step on them.

Like all bugs? ;)

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Written By:Dagwoodon03/16/05 at 7:26 pm

40% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee

I love how most of my answers were considered Northeast yet I live in the west.